Resources
Vendor-neutral references for working FPGA engineers. All free to read. Most link directly to the original source.
Career
- Salary survey results
- Annual compensation survey for FPGA engineers, broken down by region, experience, and specialization. Survey publication pending.
- Interview preparation
- Question patterns, take-home formats, and what to ask in return. Draft in review.
- Career roadmap
- Pathway from entry-level RTL through senior verification or design leadership, with the skills and projects that mark each transition. Draft in review.
- Skills gap self-assessment
- A short questionnaire to identify which areas — verification, timing closure, vendor flow, RTL fundamentals — would most improve your effectiveness in the next year. Draft in review.
Professional development
- AI-Augmented Systems Engineering
- A course on systems engineering when AI is both a tool the engineer uses and a component the engineer must build. Covers the lifecycle and analysis toolkit, verification and assurance of learned components, risk and certification, and the durable human role. All 16 slide decks are free to download. Open the course. See also where it fits in a graduate SE curriculum.
Tooling
- CovertEDA
- Open-source replacement GUI for the major vendor toolchains. Built in Rust and Tauri. See the tools page for details.
Community
- Mailing list
- Low-volume announcements only. To subscribe, email contact@fpgapa.org.
- GitHub organization
- github.com/fpga-professional-association
- Volunteer opportunities
- See the contribute page for working groups, content contributions, and chapter formation.